From: Markus Elfring <elfr...@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2018 16:30:58 +0100

Replace the specification of a data structure by a pointer dereference
as the parameter for the operator "sizeof" to make the corresponding size
determination a bit safer according to the Linux coding style convention.

This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.

Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfr...@users.sourceforge.net>
---
 drivers/input/joystick/gamecon.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/input/joystick/gamecon.c b/drivers/input/joystick/gamecon.c
index f6006383d30d..0e3d47ab9ab9 100644
--- a/drivers/input/joystick/gamecon.c
+++ b/drivers/input/joystick/gamecon.c
@@ -965,7 +965,7 @@ static void gc_attach(struct parport *pp)
                return;
        }
 
-       gc = kzalloc(sizeof(struct gc), GFP_KERNEL);
+       gc = kzalloc(sizeof(*gc), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!gc)
                goto err_unreg_pardev;
 
-- 
2.16.1

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